LOOK OUT OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look out over mean? 

• LOOK OUT OVER (verb)
  The verb LOOK OUT OVER has 1 sense:

1. be oriented in a certain direction

  Familiarity information: LOOK OUT OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK OUT OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be oriented in a certain direction

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

look across; look out on; look out over; overlook

Context example:

The apartment overlooks the Hudson

Hypernyms (to "look out over" is one way to...):

lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Let me pause for a minute to look out over the sea sparkling in the sun, or to gaze at a sailor going aloft to the gaff-topsails, or running out the bowsprit, and I am sure to hear the hateful voice, ’Ere, you, ’Ump, no sodgerin’.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)